By MARK LORENZANA Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) directly awarded a contract to a private firm to rent out 41,000 computers and other 16,000 pieces of peripheral hardware to Mexico’s state-owned oil company for the next four years. The company, Tec Pluss, distributor of Dell Computers in Mexico, won on Sept. 9 the open contract for up to 2.99 billion pesos, value-added